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Cold and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup

Elaine — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:28:25 +0000

Cold and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup

The summer isn’t over yet, but the golden gourd-shaped butternut squash are coming in. The problem is, it’s just too hot for the traditional baking whether it’s sweet or savory.

It’s too hard to eat it raw so summer has to offer another solution. Ah-ha! Cold soup- cold and creamy butternut squash soup.

Peel, seed and cut-up one average butternut squash (Throw the seeds out for the birds and squirrels.) Put it in a large pot.
Add ½ a large white or yellow onion, coarsely chopped.
Add one large can of chicken broth (about 50 ounces) and 1 – 3 tsp of freshly grated ginger

Bring to a boil. Cook until the squash and onion are very tender.

Season with

1 tsp ground nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste

Cool almost room temperature. Puree in blender or food processor.

Add 1 cup heavy cream. Chill

Serve with a garnish of chopped chives.

Chocolate Pistachio Happy Hotcakes — Gluten Free!

Elaine — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:45:17 +0000

A Winning Trio Combo – whether you need gluten free or not

These pancakes don’t need butter or syrup although I do believe in gilding the lily. The use of rice flour makes them thinner and a little crispier around the edges than a traditional pancake, but the yum factor is definitely a ten.

1.5 cups rice flour
3 Tbsp sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1.5 cups milk
3 Tbsp melted butter –unsalted or lightly salted
2 large eggs
½ tsp vanilla
½ c. chopped pistachios
½ c. chocolate chips
1/3 c. flaked coconut

You can be a little generous with these last three ingredients!

Mix the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Whisk together milk, eggs, vanilla. Pour over dry ingredients and mix together until ingredients are combined adding the melted butter as you mix, Fold in the nuts, chips and coconuts.

Heat a griddle on the stove top at medium heat. Melt ½ Tbsp butter on the griddle and spread it around. Spoon about ½ cup of batter on the griddle at a time to make as many pancakes as you can easily maneuver on the griddle.

When the pancakes have bubbles all over the top—some popped, flip them over. When the underside is brown remove to a warm plate or to a plate in a warm oven. Repeat the process until you use all the batter. Add more butter to the griddle as needed.

Serve with good maple syrup and butter. You can roll them up and fill them with whipping cream, too, and garnish with a little more of the pistachios, chips, and coconut.

Time for Summer Fun- Lures Annual Deck Party

Elaine — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:24:49 +0000

Join the party!

What’s more summer than a deck party, and it’s summer at Lures. Join the gang on Saturday July 10 from 7:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. for their annual Deck Party.

Enjoy the tastes of outdoor grilling and food specials. Have a crush or any of their great drafts for just $5. If beer by the bottle is your preference, enjoy each domestic bottle for $3. You can get ready for the party as early as 2:00 p.m. when the live music starts. It stops at 6:00 p.m. but it picks up again at 7:30 p.m. and goes until 11:30! Good foods, good friends, and a cool beverage—what more can you want from a summer’s day. 1397 Generals Highway in Crownsville. info@luresbarandgrille.com

Airplane Club Open House – June 19

Elaine — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:05:24 +0000

Experience the Fun of Radio-controlled Airplanes.

Located between Indian Creek School’s Evergreen Campus and Arden-on-the-Severn Section V, The Chesapeake Bay Radio Control Club wants to share their enthusiasm for flying with them at their annual open house on June 19 from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.

See what it’s all about and even experience the thrill of piloting the plane on a buddy box with an experienced pilot. They’ll have flight demos and amazing planes on display. They’re holding a raffle and will have refreshments available. For more information visit their site at www.crabrag.com or contact Susan at 410-533-4641.

The Electric Crab- Airplane Club’s First Electric Fly-in

Elaine — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:00:15 +0000

Sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Radio Club, the First Electric Fly-in promises to be tons of fun. The event is October 2 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. An AMA card is required to fly, but you don’t need one to just watch. The $5 landing fee includes a hot dog, soda, and chips.

The club has quite an air field. Located next to the Indian Creek School Evergreen Campus, it’s like being a giant watching offer a airport! It’s easy to find—

From Baltimore:Take I-97 south to Benfield Road exit. Turn left on to Veterans Highway. Left on to Generals Highway. Left on to Sunrise Beach Road and left on to Evergreen Road. The field is located just beyond Indian Creek School.

From the South: Take I-97 north to Benfield Road exit and follow the directions above.

For details contact Ron Bergsmith CD, rager24@verizon.net

Clean Out Your Garage or Closet– Help Yourself, Help Hope House

Elaine — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:29:22 +0000

You know that you have old sports equipment lying around. You know– the stuff you really are gonna use someday. WAKE UP and SMELL THE ROSES– not gonna happen. Why not get yourself some new space and a possible tax deduction.

Why Does Hope House Need Sports Equipment?

We know that exercise is good for anyone, regardless of whether or not they’re struggling to overcome an addiction. The patients at Hope House are battling a disease that takes a devastating physical and emotional toll. By offering regular opportunities for exercise, we are giving our patients activities that are beneficial to a healthy body, mind and spirit.

We would be grateful for donations from the community for assorted sports equipment, including basketballs, softballs and bats and gloves. Gift cards and cash donations can also be designated for the purchase of sports equipment.

Hope House Treatment Center is a non-profit substance abuse treatment center located in Crownsville, MD. Since 1983 we have assisted more than 10,000 men and women in their journey to a life of sobriety and recovery. When you support the work of Hope House, you partner with us in our mission to reach out to those in the community who so desperately need our services. We provide 24-hour nursing care, detoxification, short term inpatient, intensive outpatient, individual and group counseling, DWI/DUI Education classes and more. Please contact us if we can be of service in any way, 410-923-6700 or visit our website, www.hopehousemd.org.

Fun at the Demolition Derby Next Saturday at AA Co Fair Grounds

Elaine — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:49:39 +0000

Demolition Derby at our Favorite Fairgrounds

What a way to start the summer with all the fun of a smash ‘em up Demolition Derby on June 5. The Fairgrounds will open the gates at 4:00 p.m. so you can get the perfect seat. The derby itself starts at 7:00 p.m. For details on special good deals on tickets

Location: Anne Arundel County Fair Grounds
Link out: Click here
Description: Gates open at 4:00 p.m. and the smash \’em up action starts at 7:00 p.m.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-06-05

NATION-WIDE DEMOLITION DERBY - Saturday June 5.
The Fair will once again host this major event. Show time: 7:00 p.m. Admission gate opens at 4:00 p.m. Adults – $12 (13 yrs. & over), Kids - $5 (6 yrs – 12 yrs.), kids under 5 years of age are admitted free. New this year, we will be offering tickets for 1/2 price to to active & retired service men & women with ID for only $6.

Watch hometown guys and gals competing in vehicles of destruction. Four qualifying events take the survivors to the GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP. Don’t miss this breath taking action! This is a rain or shine event.

Sponge Bob Moon Bounce & Face Painting will be there so bring the kids for fun and excitement. Plenty of food and snacks on sale the day of the event. NO COOLERS/NO ALCOHOL/NO PETS/NO OUTSIDE FOOD.

Driver applications available at: ttp://www.nationwidedemoderby.com/ We are accepting some merchandise/non food vendors for this event. Call 410 923-3400. FREE TICKET GIVEAWAY. Visit our web site at www.aacountyfair.org to enter.

Advance Demo Derby Tickets now on sale at these local businesses:
Franklins Lawn & Garden 747 Rt. 3 North. Gambrills, MD 21054 – 410 793-0767
Bowen’s Farm Supply, Inc. 2550 Riva Rd. Annapolis, MD 21401-7405 – 410 224-3340
A.A. Co. Farm, Lawn & Garden, 155 8th Ave. N. Glen Burnie, MD – 21061 – 410 766-8400
Meyer Seed 600 South Caroline St. Baltimore, MD 21231 – 410 342-4224
Generals Hardware, 1015 Generals Highway, Crownsville, MD. 21032 – 410 923-8665
Wolford’s Well & Pump, 4429 Mountain Rd. Pasadena, Md. 21122 – 410 437-3957
Anne Arundel Fair office by appointment only. Call 410 923-3400

Spend June 13 with the Harlem Quartet in Columbia

Elaine — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:31:57 +0000

Ravel, Haydn, Marsalis Await You

Are you caught up in the wedding-graduation circuit that June brings? Take a break and relax with a chamber music concert as Candlelight Concerts presents “Harlem by Candlelight”Venue: Smith Theatre, Howard Community College
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD

Date: SUNDAY, June 13, 2010:
Time: 3:30PM
Seating: General Admission
At-the-door General Admission $30, $28, $12
Advance Price General Admission $29, $26, $12
Group Rates are available – Please call Bonnie Hoff at 410-997-2324

About The Harlem Quartet

The Harlem Quartet is one of America’s most exciting young chamber
ensembles. Formed in 2006, they have already performed by invitation with
the legendary Itzhak Perlman and played two command performances at the
White House. At this concert, you will hear works by Haydn and Ravel, music
from Wynton Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls, and the jazz standard “Take the
A Train.”

PROGRAM
Haydn: Op.76 No.1
Ravel: Quartet in F
Marsalis “At the Octoroon Balls”
VII. Rampart St. Row House Rag
II. Mating Calls and Delta Rhythms
IV. Many Gone
V. Hellbound Highball
Strayhorn: Take the A Train

ARTISTS:
Ilmar Gavilan, violin
Melissa White, violin
Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola
Desmond Neysmith, cello

Be enthralled by these superb young artists exploring new ways for a string
quartet to interact with audience. By presenting varied repertoire and
highlighting works by minority composers, the quartet is able to advance
diversity, winning young and new audiences.

The Harlem Quartet is an ensemble of first-place Laureates of the Sphinx
Competition for young Black and Latino string players. Dedicated to
education and community engagement, the quartet serves as principal faculty
at the Sphinx Performance Academy at Walnut Hill School in Massachusetts,
and as visiting faculty at the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute at Wayne
State University in Detroit. The quartet opened its 2009-10 season as
featured soloists on the national Sphinx Chamber Orchestra Tour.

In 2009 the quartet performed with Itzhak Perlman, by invitation, at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Quartet also toured Brazil for concerts in
Rio de Janeiro and Recife, and made its London debut performing at the
residence of the US ambassador.

Most recently, the quartet played two command performances at the White
House for President Obama and the First Lady. In May 2010 the Harlem travels
to Caracas and Valencia Venezuela to perform for and work with the
internationally renowned El Sistema. In the fall the Quartet will begin a
two-year residency at the New England Conservatory in Boston as winners of
the NEC Professional String Quartet Program.

Candlelight Concert Society
The Candlelight Concert Society is a Maryland based concert presenter
offering professional world class chamber music concerts, professional
children’s programs, community outreach programs, master classes, and
pre-concert lectures and discussions. www.candlelightconcerts.org

Grease — More than a Musical

Elaine — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:43:55 +0000

Grease Opens on Thursday in Crownsville

If you think that Grease at Indian Creek is going to be just another high school musical, you’ve got another thing coming. Opening Night is Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. with a talented cast, great costumes, live music, and a ’55 Chevy on stage. Every performance has something special.
Audience members who come dressed for the 1950′s, that could be poodle skirts and leather jackets, may find themselves on stage at the Jack and Nancy Becker Center for the Performing Arts for a sock hop. On Saturday Night May 1 activities start early when the Tri-M Drive-in opens for dinner at 5:30 p.m. Have your dinner served to you in your car then take a walk around the parking lot to look at the vintage auto show. Cars from the days when cars were really something special. Sunday’s matinee at 3:00 p.m. will feature the Doo-Wop sounds of the Indian Creek chorus.

Tickets are only $10 available through boxoffice@indiancreekschool.com or get them at the door. Performances are at the Jack and Nancy Becker Center for the Performing Arts at the Upper School campus of Indian Creek located at the intersection of Crownsville Road and Hawkins Road.

Haydn’s “Creation” … with a 21st Century Twist!

Elaine — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:02:30 +0000

From our friends at the Annapolis Chorale

The Creation….for the 21st Century
by Joseph Haydn
Friday, April 23, 7:30 p.m. (post concert Q&A)
Saturday, April 24, 8 p.m.
(pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. in the auditorium)

Ever wanted to see what the Hubble telescope sees from space? Now you can – accompanied by a musical celebration of our world and the universe! J. Ernest Green conducts the Annapolis Chorale and Annapolis Chamber Orchestra in two performances of Haydn’s musical poem, “The Creation,” with a multi-media and lights show celebrating the universe and the Earth in all its glory. Joining the Chorale are soprano
Amy Cofield Williamson, tenor Andre Bierman and baritones Jimi James and Jason Buckwalter.

Bring your kids FREE! Use our Student Rush ticket program one hour before each concert. Students should be under 18 or have a valid ID.

Tickets available for both nights and on sale now!